On the 24th anniversary of Francis Bacon’s death, 28th April 2016, the artist’s first definitive catalogue raisonne will be published, including over 100 previously unseen works and missing 4 that remain untraceable.
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Daniel’s Value and Ideas #77: I’d Be Safe and Warm If I Was in LA
High up in the Hollywood Hills, an Englishman is grappling with his demons. After nearly a decade in Bridlington, David Hockney has moved back to Los Angeles, following the tragic death of his young assistant Dominic Elliott.
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #73: The Interpretation of Freud
A collection of Lucian Freud’s letters is to go on sale at Sotheby’s on 2nd July
Continue Reading...Daniel’s Value and Ideas #67: The Doors to the Future
In 1992, before the YBA phenomenon fully exploded, Gary Hume took a drastic decision: he stopped making the paintings of mundane hospital doors that had gained him critical recognition and the patronage of Charles Saatchi. It should have been the end of the line for Hume, and perhaps it should have signalled a warning to his gallerist, but both survived to demonstrate that sometimes in art doing the right thing pays off.
Continue Reading...National Gallery : Random Room Roulette # 5
Kimberley will attempt to combine her knowledge into contrasting aspects of artistic studies: History of Art and Contemporary Art and Theory. Her challenge = to pick a room of the National Gallery, London at random and find a painting there….
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